Slawomir Grabowski

Ikerbasque Research Professor, UPV/EHU and DIPC - Donostia International Physics Center

Currently works at the Faculty of Chemistry at the UPV/EHU and DIPC Donostia International Physics Center.

Research line:

Theoretical chemistry, chemical physics, intermolecular interactions, hydrogen bonding.

More than 20 years of research experience in ETH, Zurich (Switzerland), University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Grenoble (France), Jackson State University (USA), Fukuoka University (Japan), universities in Poland.

Doctor in chemistry 1986 from the University of Warsaw, Poland.

2024

Article / Theoretical Insights into Bifurcated Intramolecular Dihydrogen Bonds

ChemPhysChem

Gholami, S.; Aarabi, M.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Hydrogen bond types which do not fit accepted definitions

Chemical Communications

Grabowski, S.J.

2023

Article / Ga···C Triel Bonds—Why They Are Not Strong Enough to Change Trigonal Configuration into Tetrahedral One: DFT Calculations on Dimers That Occur in Crystal Structures

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / C-H⋯C hydrogen bond and alkali metal C⋯Z⋯C (Z = Li, Na, K) analogues - N-heterocyclic carbenes in coordination spheres of protons and alkali metal cations: crystal structures and theoretical analysis

CrystEngComm

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Halogen bonds with carbenes acting as Lewis base units: complexes of imidazol-2-ylidene: theoretical analysis and experimental evidence

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Halogen Bonds between Diiodotetrafluorobenzenes and Halide Anions: Theoretical Analysis

Crystal Growth and Design

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Double Centrosymmetric Si···π Tetrel Bonds as New Synthons-Evidence from Crystal Structures and DFT Calculations

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Aarabi, M.; Gholami, S.; Grabowski, S.J.

2022

Article / Sigma-Hole Bonds and the VSEPR Model—From the Tetrahedral Structure to the Trigonal Bipyramid

Sci

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / Proton and Lithium Cations Linked to π-Electron and σ-Electron Systems: Are Such Interactions beyond or within the Definition of Hydrogen/Lithium Bond?

ChemPhysChem

Gholami, S.; Aarabi, M.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Enhancing Effects of the Cyano Group on the C-X∙∙∙N Hydrogen or Halogen Bond in Complexes of X-Cyanomethanes with Trimethyl Amine: CH3−n(CN)nX∙∙∙NMe3, (n = 0–3; X = H, Cl, Br, I)

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Parra, R.D.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Sandwich, Triple-Decker and Other Sandwich-like Complexes of Cyclopentadienyl Anions with Lithium or Sodium Cations

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.; Parra, R.D.

Article / σ-Hole Bonds and the VSEPR Model—From the Tetrahedral Structure to the Trigonal Bipyramid

Sci

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / ∏-Hole Tetrel Bonds—Lewis Acid Properties of Metallylenes

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

2021

Article / Hydrogen and lithium bonds—lewis acid units possessing multi-center covalent bonds

Molecules

Aarabi, M.; Gholami, S.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / A–x∙∙∙σ interactions—halogen bonds with σ-electrons as the lewis base centre

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / The coordination of beryllium and magnesium centres in half-sandwich and sandwich compounds

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Classification of so-called non-covalent interactions based on vsepr model

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Intramolecular hydrogen bond energy and its decomposition—o–h···o interactions

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

2020

Book / Understanding Hydrogen Bonds: Theoretical and Experimental Views

Publisher: The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, Cambridge, 2021

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / S−H…O and O−H…O Hydrogen Bonds-Comparison of Dimers of Thiocarboxylic and Carboxylic Acids

ChemPhysChem

Aarabi, M.; Gholami, S.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Molecular hydrogen as a lewis base in hydrogen bonds and other interactions

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / The nature of triel bonds, a case of B and Al centres bonded with electron rich sites

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Hydrogen bonds with BF4− anion as a proton acceptor

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

Editorial / Interactions steering arrangement of molecules in crystals

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

Review / Hydrogen bond and other lewis acid-lewis base interactions as preliminary stages of chemical reactions

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Review / Triel bond and coordination of triel centres – Comparison with hydrogen bond interaction

Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Grabowski, S.J.

2019

Article / Tetravalent Oxygen and Sulphur Centres Mediated by Carborane Superacid: Theoretical Analysis

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.; Casanova, D.; Formoso, E.; Ugalde, J.M.

Article / Bifurcated triel bonds-hydrides and halides of 1,2-bis(dichloroboryl)benzene and 1,8-bis(dichloroboryl)naphthalene

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / A−H…σ Hydrogen Bonds: Dihydrogen and Cycloalkanes as Proton Acceptors

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / A study of the optical, electrical and structural properties of poly(pyrrole-3,4-dicarboxylic acid)

Polymer

Mizera, A.; Grabowski, S.J.; Ławniczak, P.; Wysocka-Żołopa, M.; Dubis, A.T.; Łapiński, A.

Review / Pnicogen and tetrel bonds—tetrahedral Lewis acid centres

Structural Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

2018

Chapter / Intermolecular Interactions in Crystals: Fundamentals of Crystal Engineering

Juan J. Novoa

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Chapter / Intermolecular Interactions in Crystals: Fundamentals of Crystal Engineering

Juan J. Novoa

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / Coordination of Be and Mg Centres by HCN Ligands – Be…N and Mg…N Interactions

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Two faces of triel bonds in boron trihalide complexes

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Aluminum's preferential binding site in proteins: sidechain of amino acids versus backbone interactions

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

Mujika, J.I.; Dalla Torre, G.; Formoso, E.; Grande-Aztatzi, R.; Grabowski, S.J.; Exley, C.; Lopez, X.

Article / Magnesium Bonds: From Divalent Mg Centres to Trigonal and Tetrahedral Coordination

ChemistrySelect

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Tetrel Bonds with π-Electrons Acting as Lewis Bases—Theoretical Results and Experimental Evidences

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Hydrogen bonds and other interactions as a response to protect doublet/octet electron structure

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Grabowski, S.J.

2017

Article / TRIELS AS CENTERS OF LEWIS ACIDS IN INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS – COMPARISON WITH HYDROGEN BONDS

Wiadomosci Chemiczne (in Polish)

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / New type of halogen bond: Multivalent halogen interacting with π- and σ-electrons

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Tetrel bonds, penta- and hexa-coordinated tin and lead centres

Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / π⋅⋅⋅H+⋅⋅⋅π Hydrogen Bonds and Their Lithium and Gold Analogues: MP2 and CASPT2 Calculations

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.; Ruipérez, F.

Article / Triel bonds-complexes of boron and aluminum trihalides and trihydrides with benzene

Structural Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Are Various σ-Hole Bonds Steered by the Same Mechanisms?

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.; Sokalski, W.A.

Article / Lewis acid properties of tetrel tetrafluorides—the coincidence of the σ-hole concept with the QTAIM approach

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

Review / Hydrogen bonds, and σ-hole and π-hole bonds-mechanisms protecting doublet and octet electron structures

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

2016

Chapter / Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry

R. Chauvin, C. Lepetit, B.Silvi, E.Alikhani

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Chapter / Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry IV

J. Leszczynski, M.K.Shukla

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / Comparison of Hydrogen and Gold Bonding in [XHX]−, [XAuX]−, and Isoelectronic [NgHNg]+, [NgAuNg]+(X=Halogen, Ng=Noble Gas)

Chemistry - A European Journal

Grabowski, S.J.; Ugalde, J.M.; Andrada, D.M.; Frenking, G.

Article / Structural and optical properties of the naked and passivated Al5Au5 bimetallic nanoclusters

Journal of Chemical Physics

Grande-Aztatzi, R.; Formoso, E.; Mercero, J.M.; Matxain, J.M.; Grabowski, S.J.; Ugalde, J.M.

Article / Complexes of carborane acids linked by strong hydrogen bonds: Acidity scales

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Dihydrogen bond interactions as a result of H2 cleavage at Cu, Ag and Au centres

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.; Ruipérez, F.

Editorial / Analysis of hydrogen bonds in crystals

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

2015

Chapter / Noncovalent Forces

Steve Scheiner

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / [FHF]−—The strongest hydrogen bond under the influence of external interactions

Crystals

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Aluminum and its effect in the equilibrium between folded/unfolded conformation of NADH

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

Formoso, E.; Mujika, J.I.; Grabowski, S.J.; Lopez, X.

Article / Triel bonds, π-hole-π-electrons interactions in complexes of boron and aluminium trihalides and trihydrides with acetylene and ethylene

Molecules

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Cleavage of hydrogen by activation at a single non-metal centre-towards new hydrogen storage materials

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / π-hole bonds: Boron and aluminum Lewis acid centers

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Pnicogen and hydrogen bonds: Complexes between PH3X+ and PH2X systems

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Alkorta, I.; Elguero, J.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Lewis acid-Lewis base interactions: From NFH3+⋯NCH and NF4+⋯NCH complexes to NFH3+⋯(NCH)n and NF4+⋯(NCH)n clusters

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

2014

Article / Boron and other Triel Lewis Acid Centers: From Hypovalency to Hypervalency

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Halogen bond with the multivalent halogen acting as the Lewis acid center

Chemical Physics Letters

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Clusters of ammonium cation - Hydrogen bond versus σ-hole bond

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Topological reaction sites-very strong chalcogen bonds

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Alikhani, E.; Fuster, F.; Madebene, B.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Tetrel bond-σ-hole bond as a preliminary stage of the SN2 reaction

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Could the lithium bond be classified as the σ-hole bond? - QTAIM and NBO analysis

Chemical Physics Letters

Lipkowski, P.; Grabowski, S.J.

2013

Chapter / 8th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications (ESPA 2012)

Juan J. Novoa and Manuel F. Ruiz-López

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / Structural, energetic, spectroscopic and QTAIM analyses of cation-π interactions involving mono- and bi-cyclic ring fused benzene systems

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Hassan, A.; Dinadayalane, T.C.; Grabowski, S.J.; Leszczynski, J.

Article / Non-covalent interactions - QTAIM and NBO analysis

Journal of Molecular Modeling

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / σ-hole bond versus hydrogen bond: From tetravalent to pentavalent N, P, and as atoms

Chemistry - A European Journal

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Hydrogen and halogen bonds are ruled by the same mechanisms

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Complexes between dihydrogen and amine, phosphine, and arsine derivatives. Hydrogen bond versus pnictogen interaction

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.; Alkorta, I.; Elguero, J.

Article / Cooperativity of hydrogen and halogen bond interactions

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds revisited. Resonance stabilization vs. charge delocalization

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Góra, R.W.; Maj, M.; Grabowski, S.J.

Review / Dihydrogen bond and X-H.σ interaction as sub-classes of hydrogen bond

Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

2012

Article / Non-covalent interactions in NH4+...(C2H2)n ammonium cation-acetylene clusters

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Stabilizing H3-: Or are we stabilizing a proton?

ChemPhysChem

Grabowski, S.J.; Hoffmann, R.

Article / QTAIM characteristics of halogen bond and related interactions

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.

Editorial / Non-covalent interactions

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Alkorta, I.; Grabowski, S.J.

2011

Chapter / Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry I

Jerzy Leszczynski, Manoj K.Shukla

Slawomir Grabowski

Article / THE HYDROGEN BOND AND THE OTHER LEWIS ACIDâ€“LEWIS BASE INTERACTIONS (article in polish)

Wiadomosci Chemiczne (polish journal)

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Article / Red-and blue-shifted hydrogen bonds: The bent rule from quantum theory of atoms in molecules perspective

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Halogen bond and its counterparts: Bent's rule explains the formation of nonbonding interactions

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Intramolecular hydrogen bonds: The QTAIM and ELF characteristics

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Fuster, F.; Grabowski, S.J.

Article / Wetting property of the edges of monoatomic step on graphite: Frictional-force microscopy and ab initio quantum chemical studies

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Panigrahi, S.; Bhattacharya, A.; Bandyopadhyay, D.; Grabowski, S.J.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Banerjee, S.

Article / Characteristics of X-H⋯π interactions: Ab initio and QTAIM studies

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.; Lipkowski, P.

Article / Dihydrogen bonding vs metal-σ interaction in complexes between H 2 and metal hydride

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Alkorta, I.; Elguero, J.; Solimannejad, M.; Grabowski, S.J.

Review / What is the covalency of hydrogen bonding?

Chemical Reviews

Grabowski, S.J.

2010

Article / Ab initio calculations on C6H6⋯(HF) n clusters - X-H⋯π hydrogen bond

Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Grabowski, S.J.; Ugalde, J.M.

Article / Bond paths show preferable interactions: Ab initio and QTAIM studies on the X-H⋯π hydrogen bond

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Grabowski, S.J.; Ugalde, J.M.

Article / High-level ab initio calculations on low barrier hydrogen bonds and proton bound homodimers

Chemical Physics Letters

Grabowski, S.J.; Ugalde, J.M.

2022

Invited talk | Interactions that should be classified as hydrogen bonds but are not by accepted definitions

XXIV International Conference on Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2019

Conference organization | chairman of the session

1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI) - Conference organization

S.J. Grabowski

Invited talk | Interactions Involving 13-17 Groups´ Elements Acting as the Lewis Acid Centres – Comparison with the Hydrogen Bond

32nd European Crystallographic Meeting 2019 - Invited talk

S.J. Grabowski

Invited talk | What is unique for tetrel bonds compared to interactions involving 15-17 groups?

Royal Society of Chemistry International Workshop: Prospective Crystal Engineering (On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of CrystEngComm) - Invited talk

S.J. Grabowski

Invited talk | Sigma-Hole Bonds of Tetrahedral Centres

1st International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI) - Invited talk

S.J. Grabowski

2017

Invited talk | Dual character of boron as a Lewis acid center – ab initio calculations and QTAIM analysis

Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules VIII - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2016

Invited talk | Tetrel bond as a preliminary stage of SN2 reaction

Modeling and Design of Molecular Materials 2016 - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Invited talk | Tetrel bond - towards hypervalency

15th International Conference on the Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry of Germanium, Tin and Lead, GTL2016 - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Oral presentation | Activation and cleavage of dihydrogen at a single sulphur and other non/metal centres

42nd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, ICCC2016 - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2015

Invited talk | Protonation of alkanes by carborane superacids - towards the topological acidity scale

Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules VII - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Oral presentation | Splitting of hydrogen by activation at a single non-metallic center

EuCheMS – 2015 – Inorganic Chemistry Conference - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2014

Invited talk | sigma-hole bond versus hydrogen bond in simple complexes and large clusters

VI-th conference on “Modeling and Design of Molecular Materials 2014? - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Oral presentation | From hypovalency to hypervalency – boron and other triel Lewis acid centers

IMEBORON XV meeting - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2013

Invited talk | Non-covalent interactions: characterstics and mechanisms of formation – the topological approach

Workshop on Topological Approaches to Intermolecular Interactions - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Invited talk | Non-covalent interactions – theoretical insights and experimental evidences

XX Conference of the Serbian Crystallographic Society - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2012

Oral presentation | The Description of Non-Covalent Interactions in Terms of BentÂ´s Rule

8th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Oral presentation | The Hydrogen and Halogen Bond Interactions in Terms of BentÂ´s Rule

ICPOC21: 21st IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

2011

Conference organization | Chairman of the session: Hydrogen bonds/Non-covalent Interactions

9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists - Conference organization

Slawomir Grabowski

Conference organization | chairman of the 3rd session

Facets of Weak Interactions in Chemistry - Conference organization

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Invited talk | The Categories of Hydrogen Bonding

Facets of Weak Interactions in Chemistry - Invited talk

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Invited talk | Non-bonding Interactions; from model systems to biomolecules

Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules V - Invited talk

Slawomir Grabowski

Poster presentation | Ab Initio Calculations on NH4 +...(C2H2)n Ammonium - Acetylene Clusters

9th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists - Poster presentation

Slawomir Grabowski

2010

Oral presentation | Categories of hydrogen bonds - ELF, QTAIM and other approaches

Twenty Years ELF - Paris2010 - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski

Oral presentation | Ab Initio and QTAIM Studies on the X-H...pi Hydrogen Bond

7th Congress on Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications - Oral presentation

Slawomir J. Grabowski, Jesus Ugalde